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The NGW is shipped with a fully functional linux operating system in order to showcase some of the many features and interfaces the board offers. This document is intended as a beginners guide to the NGW.
Whenever prompted for a login, use the following defualt user name and password.
user: root pwd: roota
The NGW can be used as a router and includes Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Domain Name System (DNS). This means it can be connected between your computer and the rest of your home network.
The following settings are default for the NGW router software
IP address is in the range 10.0.0.20 - 10.0.0.255 DNS is set to 10.0.0.1 Gateway is set to 10.0.0.1 Reverse of IP address is dhcp-xxx.ngw.example.net
The NGW can now be configured through the NGW web interface. If you set the device up correctly, you should be able to follow these two simple steps to configure it.
(The NGW uses webif (part of OpenWRT) which allows users to change host, firewall and network settings.)
The NGW can be used to share files using the standard samba protocol. This allows you to copy files to and from the NGW's internal disk. If an SD-Card is inserted, this will be used instead of the internal flash memory.
For Windows users:
\\samba\netdisk
.
For Linux users:
\\samba\netdisk
to a local drive.
The NGW includes Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) and this can be used to configure samba.
The NGW can be used as a USB mass-storage device when an SD-card is inserted.
Note that the USB mass-storage can not be used at the same time as other applications access the storage device.
The NGW includes troll-ftpd, which is a freely available, small, but unsupported, FTP daemon from Trolltech AS.
/home/ftp
Three possible terminal connections are available on the NGW
The NGW allows user to create dynamic web pages. This can be a C/C++ program, shell script, Perl or any other executable format run on the web server. The NGW includes an example of a C program called cgipio.cgi
. The program allows users to toggle a LED on the NGW